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OT: Slowing the speed of light to improve networking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Wed Sep 29 14:03:58 2004
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:00:53 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
A colleague brought this article to my attention. Slightly off-topic,
but interesting nonetheless:
"Researchers at UC Berkeley, along with scientists from
the University of Oregon and the University of Illinois,
say they can slow the speed of light in a way that could
help speed the delivery of movies to your PC.
"Scientists at the university managed to slow the speed
of light traveling through a semiconductor to 6 miles a
second, or 31,000 times slower than the 186,000 miles per
second that light normally travels in a vacuum.
"Slowing the light pulses could lead to a more orderly
traffic flow in networks, ....."
Full article:
http://news.com.com/Slowing+the+speed+of+light+to+improve+networking/2100-1033_3-5387842.html?tag=cd.lede
- ferg
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